All of these sound wonderful and make me want to throw a party!
Sattua, would it be easier to visualize as a Catherine Wheel? Like the fireworks? Basically, a pinwheel is something that’s been layered, rolled, and then sliced so the final product has a spiral pattern. Individual-sized finger foods!
Behold! The Pinwheel!
Can you search it for contributing blogs? I know two blogs that have posted some great recipes, but they’re primarily gun blogs, not food blogs…
One of those pics reminded me of another favorite:
1 can of crescent roll dough
3-4 cups baby spinach
1 cup cream cheese
garlic to taste
1 cup white onion sliced very thin
1 cup sweet sherry
Any herbs you may like. I prefer marjoram, but it’s a bit bitter for some tastes. Basil is safer and yummy too.
saute onion and crushed garlic in sherry until soft. remove form heat and add cream cheese stirring until softened. add spinach, stir and leave to sit.
Roll out dough into long strip. spread with spinach mizture and roll up. Place in freezer until party day.
Cover cookie sheet with parchment paper. Slice pinwheels from dough roll and place on sheet. Bake at whatever temperature everything else needs until brown and flaky.
And this is what I love so much - that dough is super flexible, and can adjust to whatever everything else needs. It’s easy to pop these in and out of the oven on whatever rack is free and they come out fine. Pick up the edges of the parchment paper and just slide them onto a serving plate. Ta da!!!
I’ve done this many times with meatballs; somebody on this board highly recommended using cranberry jelly (the canned stuff).
The crescent rolls? They come in sheets now,in the same size can as the triangles, but one big sheet for cooking. They’re right next to the regular crescent roll cans.
I’m preparing right now for a Grey Cup party on Sunday. I’m serving lots of skewers. I got a couple of packs of bamboo skewers, and I am cutting things up and storing them in bags in fridge. So far I have four cheeses, pepperoni, garlic sausage and chorizo. I have two colours of cherry tomatoes, some mushrooms, pickled pearl onions and sweet peppers. Sunday morning I will cut up a pineapple and melon, and prep the grapes and mandarin sections. During the pre-game show, I will relax with a small glass of wine and thread stuff on the skewers, then I just have to scatter platters around the den with stacks of napkins and bowls of assorted crackers.
Not only is it easy and stress free, but my guests can choose to be vegan or low carb or kosher or dairy free or whatever, with any extra effort on my part.
Uh, I thought those “piloncillo” cone-ish thingies I see in stores with a decent Hispanic section were sugar.